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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Margaret Jacobs: A Generation Removed #ICWA #BABYVERONICA

On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl,
which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby
Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee
Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished her
for adoption to the Capobiancos without Brown’s consent. Although Brown
regained custody of his daughter using the Indian Child Welfare Act
(ICWA) of 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Capobiancos,
rejecting the purpose of the ICWA and ignoring the long history of
removing Indigenous children from their families.

In A Generation Removed,
a powerful blend of history and family stories, award-winning historian
Margaret D. Jacobs examines how government authorities in the
post–World War II era removed thousands of American Indian children from
their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive
families. By the late 1960s an estimated 25 to 35 percent of Indian
children had been separated from their families.

Jacobs
also reveals the global dimensions of the phenomenon: These practices
undermined Indigenous families and their communities in Canada and
Australia as well. Jacobs recounts both the trauma and resilience of
Indigenous families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their
children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national
investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and
Canada.

Margaret D. Jacobs, Chancellor’s
Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the
author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race:
Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children
in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, 2009) and Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934 (Nebraska, 1999).

"[A Generation Removed is] a solid account
that calls for "a full historical reckoning" of this devastating chapter
in the treatment of Native Americans."—Kirkus

“Using
compelling stories and weighty evidence, Jacobs has uncovered a modern
and ongoing story of child-stealing in the United States. She lays out
the shocking history of Native American adoption and the good liberal
logic that enabled it in a page-turner of a book.”—Anne F. Hyde,
Bancroft Prize–winning author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860

“Jacobs
brings deep scholarship to a topic of searing national and
transnational importance. In a respectful, clear voice, she guides the
reader on a journey into the most intimate corridors of settler
colonialism. This is a complex and often heart-wrenching history that
provides salutary lessons for the future.”—Ann McGrath, director of the
Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National
University and coauthor of How to Write History That People Want to Read

“Margaret
Jacobs once again demonstrates her genius for writing history that
combines penetrating analysis with heart-wrenching stories. Beautifully
written, deeply researched, this important and amazing book examines a
subject largely unknown to the public at large but all too familiar to
Indigenous peoples who have suffered the pain and indignity of child
removal.”—David Wallace Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928

“A Generation Removed
will find a large and interested readership among researchers,
university students (of all levels), as well as the broader community of
people involved in adoption. This book is also clearly written and is
sophisticated without being overly specialized or jargon-ridden. . . .
An admirable book, compelling to read despite the tragic stories it
recounts.”—Karen Dubinsky, author of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas

I will be posting a review here as soon as I finish it! Amazon has lots of good copies (new and used)...We have been waiting for this book, believe me - this brilliant academic has found the proof of genocide via adoption, Lyslo's work and so much more............ Trace/Lara

1 comment:

WOW WOW Absolutly wonderful ,this is your in' and soon you and that wonderful indescrible amazing woman ,hope you both blow the doors off all doors and adoptives giving vack what they know they stole having no care for the father and long hertitage,this applys to us all waiting for this genocide to end and I know with the deepest part of my mind and whoever the spirit is I have had a conversation with is now telling me something ,I talked in my sleep so not crazy and sis did same -I saw her so he or an angel of God is speaking to us in the unknown tongue and that's why we don't know what each was talking ABOUT. Need help to understand these spirits said when we are awake?We believe in God so a demon cannot get near me and her (in next room),also pray for Gods armour to keep demons out during sleep.REAL happened for two days,and to the 2 of us ,and seeing her talk to an invisible spirit.The knowing is back.

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To Veronica Brown

Veronica, we adult adoptees are thinking of you today and every day. We will be here when you need us. Your journey in the adopted life has begun, nothing can revoke that now, the damage cannot be undone. Be courageous, you have what no adoptee before you has had; a strong group of adult adoptees who know your story, who are behind you and will always be so.

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Two Worlds anthology (Vol. 1)

“…sometimes shocking, often an emotional read…this book is for individuals interested in the culture and history of the Native American Indian, but also on the reading lists of universities offering ethnic/culture/Native studies.”

“Well-researched and obviously a subject close to the heart of the authors/compilers, I found the extent of what can only be described as ‘child-snatching’ from the Native Americans quite staggering. It’s not something I was aware of before…”

“The individual pieces are open and honest and give a good insight into the turmoil of dislocation from family and tribe… I think it does have value and a story to tell. I was affected by the stories I read, and amazed by the facts presented…. because it is saying something new, interesting and often astonishing.”

Survivors, write your stories. Write your parents stories. Write the elders stories. Do not be swayed by the colonizers to keep quiet. Tribal Nations have their own way of keeping stories alive.... Trace

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I agree with you on the caring of “orphans” – true orphans, not “paper orphans” as Kathryn Joyce describes in her book, The Child Catchers. The most important thing to remember, however, is that the orphan’s original identity and family connection and heritage must remain intact and available to him or her forever. This business of adoption – and I do mean the multi-billion-dollar, unregulated business of adoption – of wiping out the child’s original identity, falsifying birth records with the adopters’ names, altering facts such as place of birth, severing familial kinship, must stop … Immediately. And the outrageous injustices foisted upon adoptees and their families for the past 100 years must be addressed and righted. We are faced today with six to seven million people who were basically legally kidnapped, sold to the highest bidder, their identities falsified, and placed in a lifelong, imposed witness protection program for which there is no legal recourse. Then told by church officials, agency and government functionaries that they have no right to know who they are, to do genealogy or learn about important family medical history, or know the identity of or associate with blood relatives. This is how the Judeo-Christian society has interpreted “caring for orphans”, for it’s own selfish interests and greed. Starting with Georgia Tann, the woman charged with kidnapping and selling 5,000 children, most of whom were given to the rich and powerful who then colluded with her to “seal” adoptions and cover their nefarious activities (see, for example, Gov. Herbert Lehman, NY, 1935).

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